346 FAMILY HERBAL 



Turnip. JRapum. 



A plant too common in our gardens to require 

 a curious description. The root is round and 

 white, or purplish. The leaves are large, long-, 

 rough, and of a deep green ; they are deeply 

 cut at the edges, and large and round at the ends ; 

 the stalks are a yard high, round, smooth, firm, 

 upright, and branched ; the leaves on them are 

 small and smooth ; the flowers are little and yellow, 

 and they stand in a kind of long spikes ; they are 

 followed by long pods. 



The roots are so frequently eaten, that few 

 would think of their possessing any medicinal 

 virtues, out being cut into slices, and stewed with 

 sugar, till their juice with the sugar, becomes a 

 syrup ; this is a very irood medicine against a 

 comrh 



vs. 



Turpen tin:; Tri e. Terebinth us. 



A tall tvcQ in the East, where it is native .- 

 we have it in gardens, but it never arises to any 

 great height here. The bark is brown and rough : 

 the branches are numerous and stand irregularly ; 

 I he leaves are each composed of a double row 

 of smaller set on a common rib, with an odd 

 one at the end. These are oval, and of a deep 

 shining green. The flowers are small and pur- 

 ple ; they appear in form of clusters of threads 

 before the leaves ; the fruit is long, but with a kernel 

 of a resinous taste. T.u i wh ;le shrub lias also a 

 resinous smell. 



We use no part of the tree but the fine Chio tur- 

 pentine, the most esteemed of all those balsams, is 

 obtained from it ; in the island whence it ha* 

 its name. It is a pleasant and an excellent mcdi- 



